Re: [PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > Jiri, > Ok, I had put this in the cover letter which I thought was ok as well. > I'll copy those parts into this commit message as well. Here is the text > below. Let me know if this is sufficient. Yup, it'd be nice to have this in changelog of one of

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > Jiri, > Ok, I had put this in the cover letter which I thought was ok as well. > I'll copy those parts into this commit message as well. Here is the text > below. Let me know if this is sufficient. Yup, it'd be nice to have this in changelog of one of

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-17 Thread Chris J Arges
On 11/16/2015 03:59 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > >> In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate >> instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will >> only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-17 Thread Chris J Arges
On 11/16/2015 03:59 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > >> In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate >> instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will >> only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-16 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate > instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will > only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will > ensure that occurrence of the

[PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-16 Thread Chris J Arges
In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used

[PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-16 Thread Chris J Arges
In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v7] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func

2015-11-16 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate > instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will > only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will > ensure that occurrence of the